Sociological explanations for economic success tend toward measures of embeddedness in longstanding social institutions, such as race and gender, or personal skills represented mainly by educational attainment. In this paper we seek a distinctively social foundation for success by investigating the long-term association between high school popularity and income. Using rich longitudinal data, we find a clear and persistent association between the number of friendship nominations received and adult income, even after accounting for the mediating influences of diverse personal, family, and work characteristics. This skill is distinct from conventional personality measures such as the Big Five, and persists long into adulthood. We hypothesize that popularity encapsulates a socioemotional skill recognized by peers as the practice of being a good friend rather than an indicator of social status.

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最有可能成功：长期返回青春期。

社会经济对经济成功的解释趋向于衡量长期存在于社会制度中的嵌入度，例如种族和性别，或主要由受教育程度代表的个人技能。在本文中，我们通过调查高中受欢迎程度与收入之间的长期联系，为成功寻求独特的社会基础。使用丰富的纵向数据，即使考虑到各种个人，家庭和工作特征的中介影响，我们也可以发现收到的友谊提名数量与成人收入之间存在清晰而持久的联系。这项技能不同于诸如“五巨头”之类的常规性格测评，并且一直持续到成年。